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{{Infobox noble|type
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| name              = William VIII
| name              = William VIII
| title            = Grand Duke of Lourgine<br>Grand Marquis of Bergen op Leuf
| title            = Stadhouder of Lourgine<br>Grand Marquis of Bergen op Leuf
| image            = [[File:William VIII of Lourgine.jpg|200px]]
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| caption          = 2022 – present
| caption          = 2022 – present
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| succession        = {{hlist |[[List of Stadhouders of Lourgine|Stadhouder of Lourgine]]}}<br>{{hlist |[[List of Grand Marquises of Bergen op Leuf|Grand Marquis of Bergen op Leuf]]}}
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| noble family      = [[House of Zachras]]
| noble family      = [[House of Zachras]]
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| father            = [[William VII of Lourgine|William VII]]
| father            = [[William VII of Lourgine|Stadhouder William VII]]
| mother            = [[Laurien Nijveldt]]
| mother            = [[Julieta Bernardes Álvarez|Countess Julieta]]
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'''William Cornelius Alexander Zachras, 8th Marquis of Bergen op Leuf''' (born 10 September 2002), known as William Zachras, is an Stradian noble. Next to his noble title, William is also active as the General of the Lourginian Free Guard and Mayor of Bergen op Leuf.
'''William Cornelius Alexander Zachras, Stadhouder of Lourgine, 8th Grand Marquis of Bergen op Leuf''' (born 10 September 2002), known as William Zachras, is an Stradian noble. Next to his noble title, William is also active as the General of the Lourginian Free Guard and Mayor of Bergen op Leuf.


==Birth==
==Birth==
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===Political ideology===
===Political ideology===
==children ==
==children ==
English historian and [[House of Tudor]] expert [[David Starkey]] describes Henry VIII as a husband:
<blockquote>What is extraordinary is that Henry was usually a very good husband. And he liked women{{Snd}}that's why he married so many of them! He was very tender to them, we know that he addressed them as "sweetheart." He was a good lover, he was very generous: the wives were given huge settlements of land and jewels{{Snd}}they were loaded with jewels. He was immensely considerate when they were pregnant. But, once he had fallen out of love... he just cut them off. He just withdrew. He abandoned them. They didn't even know he'd left them.<ref name=":6"/></blockquote>
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|+Known children of Henry VIII of England
|+Known children of William VIII of Lourgine
|-
|-
!Name!!Birth!!Death!! style="width:40%;" |Notes
!Name!!Birth!!Death!! style="width:40%;" |Notes
|-
|-
! colspan="4" |'''''By [[Catherine of Aragon]]''''' (married [[Palace of Placentia]] 11 June 1509; annulled 23 May 1533)
! colspan="4" |'''''By [[Andreas Bosmans]]'''''
|-
|Unnamed daughter|| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |31 January 1510||stillborn
|-
|-
|[[Henry, Duke of Cornwall]]||1 January 1511||22 February 1511||died aged almost two months
|[[Wilhelmina of Lourgine|Wilhelmina, Countess of Haveburght]]||15 January 2021||—||Heir to Stadhouderdom of Lourgine and the Grand marquisate of Bergen op Leuf
|-
|-
|Unnamed son|| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |17 September 1513||died shortly after birth
|[[Eleanor of Lourgine|Eleanor, Countess of Overslot]]||8 May 2023||—||
|-
|-
|Unnamed son|| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |November 1514<ref name=":0">According to [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1139382/?page=4 Sir John Dewhurst in The alleged miscarriages of Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn: 1984, p. 52], the Venetian ambassador wrote to his senate in November that "The queen has been delivered of a stillborn male child of eight months to the very great grief of the whole court", Holinshed, the chronicler, reported that "in November the queen was delivered of a prince which lived not long after", and John Stow wrote "in the meantime, to Whit, the month of November, the Q was delivered of a prince which lived not long after".</ref>||died shortly after birth
! colspan="4" |'''''By [[Lieke Groenewoudt]]'''''
|-
|-
|[[Mary I of England|Queen Mary I]]||18 February 1516||17 November 1558||married [[Philip II of Spain]] in 1554; no issue
|[[Alexandra of Lourgine|Alexandra, Baroness of Westernvelde]]||15 June 1519||23 July 1536||illegitimate; acknowledged by Henry VIII in 1525; no issue
|-
|-
|Unnamed daughter|| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |10 November 1518||stillborn in the 8th month of pregnancy<ref name=":1">{{Harvnb|Starkey|2003|p=160}}</ref> or lived at least one week
|[[Katharina of Lourgine|Katharina, Baroness of Vloedde]]||15 June 1519||23 July 1536||illegitimate; acknowledged by Henry VIII in 1525; no issue
|-
|-
! colspan="4" |'''''By [[Elizabeth Blount]]''''' (mistress; bore the only illegitimate child Henry VIII acknowledged as his son)
! colspan="4" |'''''By [[Loes Bulters]]'''''
|-
|-
|[[Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset]]||15 June 1519||23 July 1536||illegitimate; acknowledged by Henry VIII in 1525; no issue
|[[Maurice of Lourgine|Maurice, Baron of Happere]]||15 June 1519||23 July 1536||illegitimate; acknowledged by Henry VIII in 1525; no issue
|-
|-
! colspan="4" |'''''By [[Anne Boleyn]]''''' (married [[Westminster Abbey]] 25 January 1533; annulled 17 May 1536) beheaded on 19 May 1536
|[[Elizabeth of Lourgine|Elizabeth, Baroness of Zant]]||15 June 1519||23 July 1536||illegitimate; acknowledged by Henry VIII in 1525; no issue
|-
|-
|[[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]]||7 September 1533||24 March 1603|| never married; no issue
! colspan="4" |'''''By [[Veerle Boshoven]]'''''
|-
|-
|Unnamed son|| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |Christmas, 1534{{Sfn|Williams|1971|p=138}}||miscarriage or false pregnancy{{Refn|Eustace Chapuys wrote to Charles V on 28 January reporting that Anne was pregnant. A letter from George Taylor to Lady Lisle dated the 27 April 1534 says that "The queen hath a goodly belly, praying our Lord to send us a prince". In July, Anne's brother, Lord Rochford, was sent on a diplomatic mission to France to ask for the postponement of a meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I because of Anne's condition: "being so far gone with child she could not cross the sea with the king". Chapuys backs this up in a letter dated 27 July, where he refers to Anne's pregnancy. We do not know what happened with this pregnancy as there is no evidence of the outcome. Dewhurst writes of how the pregnancy could have resulted in a miscarriage or stillbirth, but there is no evidence to support this, he therefore wonders if it was a case of pseudocyesis, a false pregnancy, caused by the stress that Anne was under – the pressure to provide a son. Chapuys wrote on 27 September 1534 "Since the king began to doubt whether his lady was enceinte or not, he has renewed and increased the love he formerly had for a beautiful damsel of the court". Muriel St Clair Byrne, editor of the Lisle Letters, believes that this was a false pregnancy too.|group = nb}}
|[[Emanuel of Lourgine|Emanuel, Baron of Gavliet]]||15 June 1519||23 July 1536||illegitimate; acknowledged by Henry VIII in 1525; no issue
|-
|-
|Unnamed son|| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |1535|| miscarried son{{Refn|The only evidence for a miscarriage in 1535 is a sentence from a letter from Sir William Kingston to Lord Lisle on 24 June 1535 when Kingston says "Her Grace has as fair a belly as I have ever seen". However, Dewhurst thinks that there is an error in the dating of this letter as the editor of the Lisle Letters states that this letter is actually from 1533 or 1534 because it also refers to Sir Christopher Garneys, a man who died in October 1534.|group = nb}}
|-
|Unnamed son|| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |29 January 1536||miscarriage of a child, believed male,{{Refn|Chapuys reported to Charles V on 10 February 1536 that Anne Boleyn had miscarried on the day of Catherine of Aragon's funeral: "On the day of the interment [of Catherine of Aragon] the concubine [Anne] had an abortion which seemed to be a male child which she had not borne 3 1/2 months".|group = nb}} in the fourth month of pregnancy<ref name=":4">{{Harvnb|Starkey|2003|p=553}}</ref>
|-
! colspan="4" |'''''By [[Jane Seymour]]''''' (married [[Palace of Whitehall]] 30 May 1536) died 24 October 1537
|-
|[[Edward VI|King Edward VI]]||12 October 1537||6 July 1553|| died unmarried, age 15; no issue
|-
! colspan="4" |'''''By [[Anne of Cleves]]''''' (married [[Palace of Placentia]] 6 January 1540; annulled 9 July 1540)
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" |no issue
|-
! colspan="4" |'''''By [[Catherine Howard]]''''' (married [[Oatlands Palace]] 28 July 1540; annulled 23 November 1541) beheaded on 13 February 1542
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" |no issue
|-
! colspan="4" |'''''By [[Catherine Parr]]''''' (married [[Hampton Court Palace]] 12 July 1543; Henry VIII died 28 January 1547)
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" |no issue
|}
|}
 
==Residence==
===Lourgine===
[[File:Bergen op zoom 001.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Markiezenhof]]
The [[Markiezenhof]] is the encestrial home of the family Zachras and has been passed down to the current Stadhouder William VIII.
===Grande Baie du Sud===
The [[Álvarez Estate]] is the encestrial home of the family Álvarez and has been passed down to the current [[Julieta Bernardes Álvarez|countess Julieta]].
==Titles, styles, honours, and arms==
==Titles, styles, honours, and arms==
===Titles===
===Titles===

Latest revision as of 21:48, 2 July 2023

William VIII
Stadhouder of Lourgine
Grand Marquis of Bergen op Leuf
William VIII of Lourgine.jpg
2022 – present

PredecessorWilliam VII
Full name
William Cornelius Alexander
Native nameWillem Cornelis Alexander
Titles and styles
Born (2002-09-10) 10 September 2002 (age 21)
Stradia, Lourgine, Bergen op Leuf, Markiezenhof
Noble familyHouse of Zachras
FiancéAndreas Bosmans
Issue
FatherStadhouder William VII
MotherCountess Julieta
ReligionOrthodox Saoist
OccupationGeneral of the Lourginian Free Guard
Mayor of Bergen op Leuf

William Cornelius Alexander Zachras, Stadhouder of Lourgine, 8th Grand Marquis of Bergen op Leuf (born 10 September 2002), known as William Zachras, is an Stradian noble. Next to his noble title, William is also active as the General of the Lourginian Free Guard and Mayor of Bergen op Leuf.

Birth

Early life and education

Sports

Adulthood

Military training

Election of 2020

Politics and Public perception

Political ideology

children

Known children of William VIII of Lourgine
Name Birth Death Notes
By Andreas Bosmans
Wilhelmina, Countess of Haveburght 15 January 2021 — Heir to Stadhouderdom of Lourgine and the Grand marquisate of Bergen op Leuf
Eleanor, Countess of Overslot 8 May 2023 —
By Lieke Groenewoudt
Alexandra, Baroness of Westernvelde 15 June 1519 23 July 1536 illegitimate; acknowledged by Henry VIII in 1525; no issue
Katharina, Baroness of Vloedde 15 June 1519 23 July 1536 illegitimate; acknowledged by Henry VIII in 1525; no issue
By Loes Bulters
Maurice, Baron of Happere 15 June 1519 23 July 1536 illegitimate; acknowledged by Henry VIII in 1525; no issue
Elizabeth, Baroness of Zant 15 June 1519 23 July 1536 illegitimate; acknowledged by Henry VIII in 1525; no issue
By Veerle Boshoven
Emanuel, Baron of Gavliet 15 June 1519 23 July 1536 illegitimate; acknowledged by Henry VIII in 1525; no issue

Residence

Lourgine

The Markiezenhof

The Markiezenhof is the encestrial home of the family Zachras and has been passed down to the current Stadhouder William VIII.

Grande Baie du Sud

The Álvarez Estate is the encestrial home of the family Álvarez and has been passed down to the current countess Julieta.

Titles, styles, honours, and arms

Titles

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